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Photo gallery: The 1933 assassination of Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak. Eighty years ago this week, Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak was shot in an assassination attempt on Franklin D. Roosevelt during an event in Miami, Fla., in 1933. Mayor Cermak would linger for weeks before succumbing to his injuries. Link to this photo.
During a stop in Milwaukee on his 1912 Bull Moose campaign for the presidency, Roosevelt was shot at close range by John Schrank, a psychotic New York saloonkeeper. Schrank had his .38 caliber pistol aimed at Roosevelt's head, but a bystander saw the gun and deflected Schrank's arm just as the trigger was pulled.